Senior Frontend Developer (Flutter)

Leading Flutter mobile and web development for US clients, with rapid AI-assisted prototyping to ship things quickly. Working across a distributed team spanning the Philippines, China, and the US.

• Shipped 7+ client projects, including ones that needed unusually fast turnarounds
• Used AI-assisted prototyping to compress idea-to-demo cycles for clients
• Closed tickets that had been stuck open for months — turning unhappy clients into satisfied ones
• Strong async + cross-timezone communication across a four-continent team

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SDE II / Team Lead

Core team member at a 5-person product startup. Led mobile development for Couplr (formerly Firstlook), a social media platform for singles. Took ownership of the codebase, mentored juniors, and shaped the product direction alongside the founder.

• Led mobile dev: feeds, chat, posts, sign-ups, stories, proposals, subscriptions
• Integrated payments, Cloudflare streaming, sockets, and Firebase backend services
• Mentored junior developers and ran code reviews to maintain coding standards
• Owned app releases and store deployments end-to-end
• Resolved production issues and optimised performance for a smoother UX
• Set up workflow tooling — GitHub, Notion, ClickUp, Slack — to keep the team aligned
• Cross-functional work: hiring, interviews, and shaping company strategy
• Helped shape the long-term vision across quick commerce, video streaming, and social

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SDE I

Joined Mcabee as the second engineer on the mobile team. Built core features of Firstlook (later rebranded as Couplr) from scratch — feeds, chat, posts — collaborating closely with backend, ML, and design.

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Trainee Software Engineer

Started here as a Flutter trainee and shipped real projects almost from week one. Worked on internal tools and client-facing apps, picking up Dart, Flutter SDK, and app architecture fundamentals.

• Shipped an internal bug tracker, time tracker, and FFMPEG-based animation tool
• Built VPN Buddy — a quiet desktop utility for VPN monitoring
• Learned production discipline: code reviews, releases, debugging at scale